When GOOG starts crying about competition, for whatever reason, you know that Web 2.0 is facing some serious issues. Is the word 'web 2.0' anything more then a buzzword to make the internet 'cool again'? Can't we just call it 'same web, but with more pain-in-the-ass javascript functions for developers to write'? Anyways...
It seems to me that innovation usually comes from the 'new kids on the block'. All these people are trying to predict the who's going to bring the newest idea. I don't think that's something you can predict. All the current players have done their trick and the 'newest innovation' will likely from someone new that we haven't heard of yet. My belief is the current players are all stuck in the same mindset they have always been in and that's hard to change. Granted that's my interpretation but there it is.
Service should be prepaid, or at least a reasonable flat rate for whatever you do use and a $0 bill in a month that you don't use their network. On that subject, if you need a no-frills cellphone plan and talk an average of 300 minutes a month (or less on a cellphone) T-Mobile Prepaid service is the best value I've found. You can buy 1000 minutes for $100 with _no_ hidden costs. That's what annoyed me off about the nextel/sprint plan I had. Officially the plan was 29.99 but realistically it was more like 37 with the stupid fees.
No biggie. When I first read the article a moderator had modded the post positive without checking the link. I was trying to bring attention to that. Unfortunely they have modded me positive which will probably lead others to the link so I failed:(.
I did some reading and Canonical (Ubuntu's backer) puts a lot of effort into improving Debian... (patches/hiring Debian Developers to work on Debian). Ubuntu's primary goal, it seems (besides being a user-friendly distro), is to select a subset of Debian , do a great job of maintaining them and pass the benefits back to Debian. I couldn't find any mention of contributions to core packages like Redhat/Fedora does.
I feel the same way about Redhat that you do (I am currently on Fedora). I also feel good about Ubuntu, but for a different reason. They do a great job of providing an easy-to-use distro[1] that non-linux geeks can get their feet wet on, and thereby become linux geeks. While it's important to contribute to the core packages that everyone can use; Ubuntu fits the need of getting the word out. If that's their main focus (besides what directly helps them and Debian) then I can see that doing as much as writing pieces of code.
[1]Fedora 8 by the way has a great installer. It seemed no harder then Ubuntu to me.
Good. I should have used Occam's Razor test on his posts, since that was the first time I've heard of that about Ubuntu. It only makes sense to incorporate code, there's no reason to duplicate work. By the way, your signature is way too true.
Point taken. I wasn't aware fully of what you were implying. I have no problem with using a distro that takes a lot of the software from other ditros. I don't even have a problem if the developers are doing mostly tweaks. However saying that it is your own work is quite different. If what you say is true I'm very disheartened.
Business sense most like. It doesn't really matter where it originated as long as Ubuntu does it well. If they put emphasis that PulseAudio was originally developed for Fedora wouldn't that make it more likely that people would try out Fedora instead of Ubuntu. I'm sure more knowledgeable slashdotters could name packages for Fedora that were originally developed in Ubuntu or other distros. It's all a matter of perception but perception is important.
How are you voting? By the person who's polled as ahead?[1] There can only be one winner. The rest, no matter how large of a percentage of votes, are losers. There's a lot of people who are going to back the wrong horse. In my opinion it's better to support a person[2] who you agree with than the obvious winner(s).
[1] These are rhetorical questions to show you where I'm coming from. There's no reason to respond to this because I'm not continuing this discussion after this post. It's a matter of arguing on opinions which neither of us is going to change by a silly online website.
I'd rather vote on the issues then based on the media polls of who is ahead. Your mileage may vary, but I feel better with myself for sticking to my ideals than picking it based on a popularity contest. Also, I believe that it's possible to wake up the Americans that they don't have only two choices. Likely? Probably not. But it allows me to sleep good at night.
It really depends on what you prefer. Myself, I use GNOME because its defaults happen to be how I would spend the time configuring KDE to function as. It saves me time with setting up my desktop and more time doing the stuff I want to do. The GP's reason for liking it (organization of applications) is also something I like about it. I haven't tried KDE for a while, does it put all the applications in one 'start menu' dropdown by default like the GP says?
I was going to go into a big spiel about dual-booting but realized that that's what you've probably already tried. Another way to test Linux is to get a used older system (or one that you're going to retire). My system is very far below the specs required for Vista but will be sufficient for Linux until it dies (it's a laptop so I can't expect it to last forever).
Seems kind of redundant to run those calculations. I'm curious if someone's done those calculations on the recommended height & distance. It would be more noteworthy if a tiger was capable of jumping that.
Graphically yes but the game I remember was inside caves. Pitfall 2: The Lost Caverns might fit the bill but it still doesn't feel right. I vaguely remember pyramids or something Egyptian-like in the game. Sigh, I guess I'll keep looking.
Why would a professor want his name first on any paper anyway? I'm working with a professor at my university (he's in Mathematics and I'm a CS grad student) on a research project. This particular professor is very active in research. So that is why he would want top billing in a paper. I don't believe he'd take the credit for a student doing the lion's share of the work and writing the paper but he does have an interest in research.
he PI's don't need or want top billing, because it's understood by all that they (most likely) played a large part in directing the research. The grad student or post-doc who did the majority of the actual work gets a first authorship to further them on their own way. I'm a computer science graduate student and am working with a Mathematics professor at my university on a research project. You analysis is true with us as well. I'm doing a majority of the work but without his ideas I would have no idea where to start. If a paper comes out of it I would expect my name to appear somewhere but there's no way I could take all the credit.
Choplifter Thank you so much. That was the first game I ever played on a computer that my family got as a hand-me-down from my uncle. I could not remember the name. Now I just need to figure the Indiana Jones type game that was a side-scrolling game with similar style graphics as Choplifter. That was my favorite game for a long time.
Every 2-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit nerd who has used Vista seems to be saying the same thing. Totally untrue. I know two nerds who are very satisfied with Vista. I think everyone is forgetting that this a rework and not an incremental update of an older system. Case in point, XP was not designed for 64 bit. Yes, XP eventually supported 64 bit but it was never initially designed for it so it was likely some hack. At some point you have to scrap code and rewrite it.
Of course there's going to be memory leaks etc in the first version. This being slashdot I would hope people would understand how complicated an OS is. We can argue that it may not have been in Microsoft's best interest to do a rework. However that's different then saying that the OS is crap. It's almost like no one has ever written code in here before.
I was under the impression that Nokia have a rather tarnished reputation in the eyes of the Free Software world, since they seem to be pro-patents for software and there was that opposition from them concerning Ogg Vorbis as a web standard or something. Can anyone else substantiate this? I'm sure RMS and the others on the extreme end of the Free Software community have that view. I'm just curious if anyone else in the community has a more balanced opinion.
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It seems to me that innovation usually comes from the 'new kids on the block'. All these people are trying to predict the who's going to bring the newest idea. I don't think that's something you can predict. All the current players have done their trick and the 'newest innovation' will likely from someone new that we haven't heard of yet. My belief is the current players are all stuck in the same mindset they have always been in and that's hard to change. Granted that's my interpretation but there it is.
No biggie. When I first read the article a moderator had modded the post positive without checking the link. I was trying to bring attention to that. Unfortunely they have modded me positive which will probably lead others to the link so I failed :(.
Don't click link. Page has nasty javascript and is not related to the article one bit!
I did some reading and Canonical (Ubuntu's backer) puts a lot of effort into improving Debian ... (patches/hiring Debian Developers to work on Debian). Ubuntu's primary goal, it seems (besides being a user-friendly distro), is to select a subset of Debian , do a great job of maintaining them and pass the benefits back to Debian. I couldn't find any mention of contributions to core packages like Redhat/Fedora does.
I feel the same way about Redhat that you do (I am currently on Fedora). I also feel good about Ubuntu, but for a different reason. They do a great job of providing an easy-to-use distro[1] that non-linux geeks can get their feet wet on, and thereby become linux geeks. While it's important to contribute to the core packages that everyone can use; Ubuntu fits the need of getting the word out. If that's their main focus (besides what directly helps them and Debian) then I can see that doing as much as writing pieces of code.
[1]Fedora 8 by the way has a great installer. It seemed no harder then Ubuntu to me.
Good. I should have used Occam's Razor test on his posts, since that was the first time I've heard of that about Ubuntu. It only makes sense to incorporate code, there's no reason to duplicate work. By the way, your signature is way too true.
Point taken. I wasn't aware fully of what you were implying. I have no problem with using a distro that takes a lot of the software from other ditros. I don't even have a problem if the developers are doing mostly tweaks. However saying that it is your own work is quite different. If what you say is true I'm very disheartened.
Business sense most like. It doesn't really matter where it originated as long as Ubuntu does it well. If they put emphasis that PulseAudio was originally developed for Fedora wouldn't that make it more likely that people would try out Fedora instead of Ubuntu. I'm sure more knowledgeable slashdotters could name packages for Fedora that were originally developed in Ubuntu or other distros. It's all a matter of perception but perception is important.
How are you voting? By the person who's polled as ahead?[1] There can only be one winner. The rest, no matter how large of a percentage of votes, are losers. There's a lot of people who are going to back the wrong horse. In my opinion it's better to support a person[2] who you agree with than the obvious winner(s).
[1] These are rhetorical questions to show you where I'm coming from. There's no reason to respond to this because I'm not continuing this discussion after this post. It's a matter of arguing on opinions which neither of us is going to change by a silly online website.
[2] Note I never said I am voting for Ron Paul.
I'd rather vote on the issues then based on the media polls of who is ahead. Your mileage may vary, but I feel better with myself for sticking to my ideals than picking it based on a popularity contest. Also, I believe that it's possible to wake up the Americans that they don't have only two choices. Likely? Probably not. But it allows me to sleep good at night.
It really depends on what you prefer. Myself, I use GNOME because its defaults happen to be how I would spend the time configuring KDE to function as. It saves me time with setting up my desktop and more time doing the stuff I want to do. The GP's reason for liking it (organization of applications) is also something I like about it. I haven't tried KDE for a while, does it put all the applications in one 'start menu' dropdown by default like the GP says?
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Good example. You could easily fix a program like that by throwing in a '#define class something'. :)
Makes sense. I've always done casting in those situations, even when writing _for_ C.
I was going to go into a big spiel about dual-booting but realized that that's what you've probably already tried. Another way to test Linux is to get a used older system (or one that you're going to retire). My system is very far below the specs required for Vista but will be sufficient for Linux until it dies (it's a laptop so I can't expect it to last forever).
Sorry, I should say that you can link object files (from C) and call C functions from C++. I'm not aware of you can compile C as C++ 100%.
I was under the distinct impression that what you write in C can be compiled as C++. Can you give a specific example of where this isn't the case?
Seems kind of redundant to run those calculations. I'm curious if someone's done those calculations on the recommended height & distance. It would be more noteworthy if a tiger was capable of jumping that.
Graphically yes but the game I remember was inside caves. Pitfall 2: The Lost Caverns might fit the bill but it still doesn't feel right. I vaguely remember pyramids or something Egyptian-like in the game. Sigh, I guess I'll keep looking.
Of course there's going to be memory leaks etc in the first version. This being slashdot I would hope people would understand how complicated an OS is. We can argue that it may not have been in Microsoft's best interest to do a rework. However that's different then saying that the OS is crap. It's almost like no one has ever written code in here before.